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Candini, Michela; Giuberti, Virginia; Santelli, Erica; di Pellegrino, Giuseppe; Frassinetti, Francesca – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
The space around the body has been defined as action space ("peripersonal space") and a social space ("interpersonal space"). Within the current debate about the characteristics of these spaces, here we investigated the functional properties and plasticity of action and social space in developmental age. To these aims, children…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Personal Space
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Sovrano, Valeria Anna; Bisazza, Angelo; Vallortigara, Giorgio – Cognition, 2005
Disoriented children could use geometric information in combination with landmark information to reorient themselves in large but not in small experimental spaces. We tested fish in the same task and found that they were able to conjoin geometric and non-geometric (landmark) information to reorient themselves in both the large and the small space…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Animals, Spatial Ability, Personal Space